Driverless Hype Collides with Merciless Reality
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#2"Our love affair with self-driving cars is a form of 'techno-chauvinism,' Prof. Broussard says. 'It's the idea that technology is always the highest and best solution, and is superior to the people-based solution.'"
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#3"Our love affair with self-driving cars is a form of 'techno-chauvinism,' Prof. Broussard says. 'It's the idea that technology is always the highest and best solution, and is superior to the people-based solution.'"
The current disillusionment is a natural consequence of the preceding over-hype and over-exuberance.
We've been there before.
After the AI winter, many people argued AI will never come, and many achievements we already have (such as speech recognition) are impossible.
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#5https://www.fullwsj.com/articles/driverless-hype-collides-wi...
That doesn't work for me but http://archive.is/xKX1T does.
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#6I think Musk notwithstanding, folks who are actually developing ADAS technologies are not* really touting driverless capabilities – that's the ultimate goal but the genuine projects today are focused on HD mapping and image recognition from cameras to overcome the LiDAR price hurdle.
OEMs are very interested in startups working on those specific issues, but for various reasons these incremental steps aren't as widely reported so all we get left is the hype that self driving cars "are here" and things like Tesla Autopilot
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#8"Our love affair with self-driving cars is a form of 'techno-chauvinism,' Prof. Broussard says. 'It's the idea that technology is always the highest and best solution, and is superior to the people-based solution.'"
The current disillusionment is a natural consequence of the preceding over-hype and over-exuberance. We've been there before. After the AI winter, many people argued AI will never come, and many achievements we already have (such as speech recognition) are impossible.
I wouldn’t say speech recognition is solved. It’s still quite error prone.
Self-driving cars need to be even better or people will die.
Perhaps self-driving cars can be deployed in a limited way, as taxis, for example.
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#9"Our love affair with self-driving cars is a form of 'techno-chauvinism,' Prof. Broussard says. 'It's the idea that technology is always the highest and best solution, and is superior to the people-based solution.'"
We like the idea of technological solutions that don't require us to change our lifestyle or make hard choices. Driverless cars are appealing because they would allow us to largely maintain the status quo (as opposed to, say, reorienting toward public transportation). It's like an obese person who says, "I don't want to eat healthy and exercise. Why can't scientists just invent low-calorie versions of the food I like?"